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THE BOSTON DAILY GLOBE TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7. 1943 EDGAR MOWRER Hampl 6 Bay State Continued from the First Page Framingham Priest Heard Many Confessions on Tarawa War Shops Manpower Needs Revised Downward by WMC Army Men People of United Nations Expected More of Parley Prisoners; Two boys from Massachusetts whom Hampl knew were with him on the Oklahoma and on the Helena, Willie Gore, B.M., 1. and Robert Gaudes, cox. 1 A i. wl iu wounucu I 4 Unless it is speedily, completed by further details, the declaration cf Teheran is likely to prove a bitter disappointment to the people of the Casualty lists issued by the War Both Went Down "They went down on the Helena" said the tall, slow-spoken sailor.

Department yesterday include the names of six Massachusetts men who are reported to be prisoners of the Germans and the names of 10 other Bay Staters wounded in action in WASHINGTON. Dec. fl (AP) Em. ployment in munitions plants next July will be 900.000 under previous predictions, the War Manpower Commission estimated today in drastically revising its figures on manpower needs. Even with this decrease caused by the spending of nearly less for munitions in 1944 than had been scheduled, the commission said, the nation is not "over the hump" in manpower.

Employment in nonwar activities such as trades and services has not fallen off as expected, it said, and probably will decline very little next year. Because of this the total labor force in July, 1944, including the armed services, now is estimated at a record high of 66,300,000 which is 400,000 more than was predicted last July and 1.500,000 more than the actual labor force at that time. Teheran declaration was the use of the phrase "world family of democratic nations" for the more usual "United Nations." Does this mean that the conception of the United Nations of the World, a new and better league, has been dropped in favor of an amiable phrase behind which four or five great powers expect to run the world? If so, let the President speak and the American people will accept or repudiate. To all those who hoped that the Big Three meeting might bring forth the announcement of a United Nations council in fulfillment of the Moscow promise of an "international organization." this sloppy for the Mediterranean and Southwest i -JT 1 0 1 St 40 (The following story, distributed by the Associated Press, is a composite based on stories prepared at Tarawa by Master Technical Sergt. Jim Lucas of Tulsa, and Sergt.

Pete Zurlinden of Dayton, Marine Corps combat correspondents.) TARAWA. Nov. 24 (DelayedTo-day we are burying our dead. Although the Gilbert Islands are part of the British Empire and their resident commissioner driven from his post by Japanese occupation soon after the start of the war has landed with us, there is now a part of it which will be forever American. Our first cemetery was laid out while the fighting raged less than 50 yards away.

1 saw one Marine fall in a nearby clearing while the first funeral services were being held. It was not a pretty sight, but it was impressive. Hundreds of dead Marines were brought in from all parts of the island, carried on stretchers, improvised litters and in ponchos. Six chaplains took part. Before the invasion started Lieut.

Arthur J. Cunneen, Chaplain Corps. United States Naval Reserve, of Framingham, held scores of religious services in the bleak dawn for the Marines and sailors at their debarkation posts in the convoy. Chaplain Cunneen, a missionary to China for 10 years, who left that country a few days before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, serves aboard a transport which was once one of the finest passenger ships afloat but which in the last year has been under fire in North Africa, Sicily and the Pacific. For days before the invasion, Chapplatn Cuneen held daily mass and confession for Catholic Marines aboard his vessel.

"We can't wait until the last minute to get these boys ready for what is ahead of them," he said. "I begin my work among them as soon as they come aboard, and stay with them until they go over the side." united rations. For rightly or wrongly, these peoples have for nearly two years been counting on a meeting between President Roosevelt and Marshal Stalin to solve most of the thorny problems arising out of the war and the peace. Comine "But it will be the hardest and most crucial lap." He said he believed "we will get down the last lap without national service legislation," although if anyone had said a year ago that the achievements to date could have been made without such legislation "I would have said he was naiva and did not realize the problem." WMC said the WPB has given several reasons for a belief that the nation is approaching its production ceiling, including the following: Recent diminution in the monthly rate of increase of munitions production; Anticipated cut-backs in the programs for some items for which requirements are reduced by the changing military situation: The fact that schedules for some types of equipment had been set at high levels which may be modified downward. The new manpower estimates do not show any change in the expected size of the armed forces 11,300,000 ne July 1.

This is an increase of 2,000,000 over last July 1. Haber said that Nov. 1 the armed forces numbered about 10.000.000. Pacific areas. The casualties include: PRISONERS OF GERMANY KING.

GEORGE STAFF Husband ol Mrs. Matilda 3. Kins. 73 Blanchard road. Cambridge.

Reported missing in the Globe Nov 12. LaPORTA. FRANK STAFF SERGT. Son of Mrs. Theresa LaPorta.

28 Hale Medford. Reported missinB in the Globe Nov. 14. MARENGO. CHARLES STAFF SERGT.

Son of Mrs. Rose Marengo, 24 Gay-- land Roxbury. Reported a German prisoner, in the Globe. Nov. Za.

lunar KS. WILLIAM STAFF SERGT. after the superbly specific Cairo declaration about Janan the Bio Three Teheran statement seemed particularly thin. mula of "world family of democratic nations" is a bitter disappointment. The sooner Roosevelt and Churchill return to their respective haunts and begin explaining all the things left unexplained at Teheran, the nappier everyone will be.

Entering "Most Crucial Lap" "We are entering the last lan of Husba.id of Mrs. Eunice M. Mar- manpower mobilization," William Haber, assistant executive director, told reporters at a press conference. "They were standing just a few feet away from me near the repair station, but they were in the center of the explosion. I saw them go up with it.

I think Gaudes was from Boston. He talked about it a lot, and we used to razz him about his Boston accent. "I'd write to their families or look them up if I knew how to reach them." said Hampl. "I think Gore had a sister living in Boston. I had to tell Kenneth Graf's mother in Belleville.

Kansas, that he went down at the same time. "I remember that we were all having breakfast on the Oklahoma on the morning of Dec. 7, two years ago. The mess room on the after part of the ship was peaceful enough as peaceful as it ever is. Suddenly the whole ship shook with a terrific explosion, completely without warning.

"Word was passed to go to general quarters station, so I tore up to turret 3 that was my battle station. By then the ship was listing pretty badly. There was a lot of noise. I thought I heard someone shouting 'abandon Men were jumping overboard and the Oklahoma started to roll, so I didn't wait to find out. Three of us jumped together, but I was the only one who made it.

"My hand had got jammed in the gun turret and my right thumb was pretty well smashed, but I could still swim, so I headed for the shore near our sub base. "Did they put me in the hospital? Sure they did, but I didn't stay there. When I recovered consciousness, I heard planes overhead, and I knew they weren't ours because I could see the Rising Suns on them from the dispensary window. My hand was done up in a sling and I could move around, but Informal Ceremony Marks Signing of Teheran Pact i Boston Waste Paper Will Be Collected With Tin Next Week Next week has been set for the collection of waste paper in Boston, B. G.

Waters executive secretary of the Massachusetts salvage division, said yesterday. The collection will be at the same time as the tin can collection. Public Works Commissioner George G. Hyland's men will collect in Wards 1 through' 5. Monday: Wards 6-10, Tuesday; Wards 11-14, Wednesday; Wards 15-18.

Thursday, and Wards 19-22, aues, 10 Sheridan Lynn, rtepori-ed missing, in the Globe. Oct. 21. RITTENHERG, IRVING 20 LIEUT. Son of Mrs.

Mary Rlttenberg, 4 St Paul Brookline. Reported missing, in the Globe. Nov. 22. STENMON, FLOYD PVT.

Husband of Mrs. Alice E. Stenmon, 34 Linden Allston. Reported missing, in the Globe. Nov.

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Friend of Miss Ruth L. McDougall, 143 Upland st Quincy. How About Germany? How, for instance, is Germany going to get oft? If Cairo could announce the full juicy details of what Japan may expect, why should not Teheran have done the same for Germany? It is true that at Moscow the foreign secretaries agreed on unconditional surrender for that country. But just what does this mean? Does silence cloak the funny notion that the publication of "tough" conditions would spur the Germans to fight to the last man? Let us hope not. for the contrary is true; the meaner the peace terms, the sooner the Germans will crack.

Is there unwillingness to exaggerate the discussion in Britain and the United States between the advocates of the "soft" and the "hard" peace? Well, the terms of the Tehera.i declaration hint at a possibility of compromise that bodes no good. Or is it that we and the Russians do not see eye to eye? Above all, why this silence about Poland? Political students in this country are well aware that the Polish probler" unless settled with Stalin, may wreck the peace. It is absolutely essential that some sort of diplomatic relations be patched up Ictween the Soviet Union and Poland and Roosevelt was believed to be the one man who could do this. Has he failed? Another conspicuous feature of the Ciano, Son-in-Law of Duce, Reported Executed in Milan BERN, Dec. 6 (AP) An unconfirmed report from the Swiss-Italian frontier tonight said that Count Galeazzo Ciano, former Fascist For-eign Minister of Italy, had been executed by a firing squad today as a traitor to the old regime of Benito Mussolini, his (The German News Agency DNB broadcast a denial, quoting "competent Italian quarters" in Nazi-occupied Milan.

DNB said "th trial against Count Ciano has not beRun The frontier report, transmitted by the Swiss telegraph agency, taid both Mussolini and his daughter Edda, the wife of the Count, refrained from intervening in Ciano behalf. By GAULT MacGOWAN CAIRO. Dec. 8 (NANA) (By Cable) The signing of the twin documents in the Russian Embassy at Teheran was a remarkably informal ceremony in view of its historic importance and took place at a' big, round oak table especially built for the conference. The very shape of the table seemingly contributed to the accord that distinguished the conference since it permitted the conferees to gather around like King Arthur's knights of old and eliminated the raising of any question as to seating precedence.

The papers were drawn up in both English and Russian and the three leaders signed each after they had been initialed by interpreters who checked them carefully beforehand. The first to arrive at the conference room for the signing was Premier Stalin who, accompanied by Molotov, had walked the short distance from the guest house on the embassy grounds between rows of Russian soldiers. Next came Prime Minister Churchill who had come a greater distance by motor from the main mansion of the embassy, accompanied Secretary Eden and Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, British Ambassador to Russia. In a moment or two President Roosevelt arrived with W. Averell Harriman, his Ambassador to Moscow, and Harry Hopkins, his chief confidante, and the few outside privileged observers said it was an exciting moment as the Russian and British leaders arose and walked toward the door to greet the Americans.

President Roosevelt was the first to sign the war-peace guarantee. Prime Minister Churchill, presumably because of Britain's special interests in Persia, was the first to sign the Iranian declaration while Stalin signed next. Pin-Ups Invade Army Classroom CAMP VAN DORN. Miss. (AP) Officers here use pictures of strikingly proportioned pin-up girls to sell more serious knowledge to men of an Engineers' combat Battalion.

Technical diagrams and relief maps are flanked generously with the cuties, and above each exhibit are these words in black boldfaced letters; "THIS IS WORTH FIGHTING FOR!" I couldn find any clothes. "Before the hospital guys vpotted me I ran out in my pajamas. When I saw what was happening, I grabbed some ammunition and made for the roof. There were some Army guys there too, shooting at.the Jap planes. Then I remembered seeing the Arizona blow up and the destroyer Shaw go up while I had Cost of interest on the public debt is expected to reach three billion dollars this fiscal year.

GEORGE E. HAMPL been trying to swim for shore and I was mad. "I think I stayed on that roof for two days and nights, still in my pajamas, standing machine gun watch and carrying ammunition. We didn't sleep much. The mosquitoes were thicker than the Japs! "I went aboiird the cruiser Helena as soon as the Navy formed a fleet pool that was on Dec.

ft. The Helena had been hit by torpedoes amidships, but we started to repair her as we headed out to sea. Moscow Feels 'Second Front' Near at Hand MOSCOW. Dec. 6 (AP) Premier Marshal Stalin has returned safely to Moscow from Teheran where his meetinfe with President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill settled the biggest question from the Soviet viewpoint, the question of the "Second Front." Stalin returned in high spirits.

He settled down immediately to work. It was learned he and Roosevelt took a liking to each other and got along famously. It is understood that the Russians were completely satisfied with all the conference results. Three weeks before leaving for Teheran. Stalin assured his people that establishment of another front was "not beyond the mountains.

Russian way of saying that it was near. White's Exhibit Hails Birthday of Cardinal R. H. White's traditional exhiDit commemorating the birthday cf Cardinal OConnell. dean of the Catholic hierarchy of America, who will be 84 tomorrow, is now on display in the store's Washington-st.

window. An oil portrait of the Cardinal, flanked by vases of chrysanthemums and information about him, is set off Scared by Convoy "We got a bad scare when we nosed out of Tearl Harbor. A convoy was coming at us and our nerves were so shot that we were about to open fire on them when they signalled that they were ours." Hampl was called "Red" by his shipmates on the Helena, whose crew, credited with destroying 15 enemy warships, were called by the Navy Department some of this country's "fightingest men-o'-war." He and his fellow Pearl Harbor veterans put to sea again in July of 1941 headed for what the Navy called an unknown destination and on their way to 13 months of heavy fighting. "We had three cracks at the Japs off Gaudalcanal, on Oct. 11 and Nov.

12 of '42, and in July the next year, when we went down ourselves. It was the Oct. 12 battle that ticked me. On that one day we were bombarded in the morning, attacked by 31 planes at noon, and shelled by enemy ships just after midnight. "Sure, we were tired that day.

but we didn't have a chance to think about it. There isn't any 40-hour week in the Navy. It gave me a big kick to see those twin-motored Jap planes drop down all around us like ducks. All but one of those planes were shot down that day. We were astern of the San Francisco during the surface battle that night.

We just steamed through the middle by American beauty velvet back- rirons. 700,000 Words Sent on Cairo Conference CAIRO, Egypt, Dec. 8 (AP) Press dispatches cabled and wirelessed from Cairo by 11 correspondents covering the big powers' conferences totalled nearly, 700.000 words. This was in addition to uncounr-ed hundreds of thousands of words, which could better be reckoned on a tonnage basis, sent by special fast planes for release at specified deadlines. i of the Jap warships.

"I saw the WasD and Juneau go down, but we didn't get ours until the third Gaudalcanal battle. The Helena went down the next July. The explosion blew my clothes off un to my waist, but it didn diow my lifebelt off. so I jumped. That MacArthur explosion got Uaudes ana uore.

i was in the repair station and I was hit by shrapnel all sides but my Continued from the First Page un legs were the only places tnai it penetrated. I couldn't swim but my lifebelt held me up. "Our other ships were still fight-mg when the Helena went down. We watched them blow up a Jnp cruiser that was shelling us in the water. That Jap ship went up so fast that the crew didn't have a chance to jump.

Only 19 of the vrmw sidGs mm nQ. IB punt GTrnnj 189 men in my division survived that battle. We floated in the water for four and a half hours until a destroyer picked us up. "Say, all they write about those flashlights for seamen is true. They saved our lives.

We'signalled with them when we saw one of our own ships. "The Helena went down like a lady. She just sat there on the water and folded Aip like a piece of paper buckling in the middle." "My wife and I like Boston pretty well. You can dance here on Sundays! But after the war, we'd like to live' in Australia. They like Americans there." Destroyer Shell Boutalnvllle The island of Bougainville.

Japan! last big Solomons base barring the direct approach to Rabaul, was given an equally thorough blasting both by destroyers and planes. Admiral Halsey's headquarters reported that on Saturday morning destroyers shelled enemy positions on the southern end of the Empress Augusta beachhead. This is in the sector where the Japanese are in the greatest strength, inasmuch as a large enemy garrison on Bougainville's south coast was bypassed by the American choice of an invasion point. Destroyers also moved to the northwestern end of Choiseul. an enemy-held island southeast of Bougainville, and bombarded it for an houT Sunday morning.

Spotter planes said the two naval attacks started fires and caused considerable damage. Meanwhile, the Solomons air force made 200 more sorties, dropping more than 2000 bombs. In the same sector near the beachhead where the destroyers went into action, more than 100 Dauntless dive bombers and Avenger torpedo bombers exploded 700 bombs. Making it a three-way attack on that sector. American artillerymen used 155s to knock out enemy installations.

On the northern end of Bougainville, Liberators dropped 700 borr.bs on Bonis airdrome and 500 bombs on nearby Chabai. Kieta, enemy base on the island's east-central shore directly across from Empress Augusta, also was hit and the Shortland Islands just south of Bougainville were raided. On the New Guinea front, there was no additional word concerning the inland jungle drive of Australians against the train junction of Wareo, but on the coast another Aussie force moved 'hree-quarters of a mile beyond the Kaleung River north of Fincchha'en. 5 N. E.

Airmen in No. Africa Are Decorated Five New Englanders are among the men of the Army Air Forces i mepemBs Mjpmm SIM EeQimzm Emjpfly serving with the 12th Air Support Command in Northwest Africa who have been awarded decorations for meritorious achievement while participating in anti-submarine patrol flights, the War Department announced yesterday. The New Englanders decorated i HAFFENREFFER a INC. BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS BREWERS SINCE 1870 and the awards conferred are: Massachusetts SECOND BftON.E OAK LEAF CLUSTER TO AIR MEDAL BLISS. EDWIN II STAFF 175 Tower Dedham.

McKINNON, FREDERICK 1ST LIEUT. 211 Wren West Roxbury. FIRST BRONZE OAK LEAF CLUSTER TO AIR MEDAL STILL. JAMES W-. TECH.

59 Vowars Holyoke. STINEF. WALTER FLIGHT 28 Crown Westfield. In the last 4000 years of history there have been but 268 years entirely free of war..